The Virtual Worlds Technical mailing list is a discussion forum for all topics related to technology and how it applies to the architecture, implementation and deployment of virtual worlds. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, multiuser dungeons (MUDs), massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and first person shooters.

Our goal is to foster discussions about technical issues. While it is impossible (and undesirable) to completely isolate technology from design, process and production, non-technical topics such as design, software development methodologies, community building, genre discussions, et. al. should be conducted in more appropriate forums such as:

• MUD-Dev
• gd-algorithms
• gamedevlists-general
• sweng-gamedev

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